Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning of an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting government entities, educational institutions, private companies and the healthcare sector in the US and the UK. Use multifactor authentication where possible. … hard drive, storage device, the cloud). and others.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

United States government agencies recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing information on how North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are actively using Maui ransomware to attack healthcare organizations. The only required argument is a folder path, which Maui will parse and encrypt identified files.".

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” healthcare organizations. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Being constantly connected to the internet, they are either protected by basic passwords or, in some cases, have no password protection at all. A 2021 Cynerio report revealed a staggering 123% increase in ransomware attacks on healthcare facilities, resulting in more than 500 incidents and costs exceeding $21 billion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 14, 2021

It is no secret that healthcare systems around the globe are facing unprecedented challenges. Beyond the obvious spectre of the pandemic, health services need to provide a growing, increasingly elderly, population, with quality healthcare despite rising costs. How healthcare has transformed during the pandemic.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. Nelson outlined for me how CSA is acting on this vision by working on specifications to extend Matter beyond smart home devices to smart devices in healthcare facilities and commercial buildings. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers from Kookmin University and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) discovered an implementation vulnerability in the source code of the Rhysida ransomware. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations. The Meaningful Use portion of the HITECH Act provided healthcare organizations a carrot to encourage the adoption of electronic health records.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“We’re building trust into devices in automotive and we’re seeing it in healthcare, as well.” DigiCert’s clients and prospects are steadily modernizing the way digital connections get authenticated and sensitive assets get encrypted, Trzupek told me. Will the laggards follow the trust leaders? I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The biggest target is the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector, according to the advisory. "As As of October 2022, per FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) data, specifically victim reports across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, the HPH Sector accounts for 25 percent of ransomware complaints.".

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

Healthcare organizations are increasingly targeted by criminals. The healthcare industry continued to be one of the the most targeted sector in 2021 , witnessing a 51% increase in breaches since 2019. In 2020 alone, 560 healthcare facilities in the U.S. Lack of authentication creates man-in-the-middle risks.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Despite expending a lot of hot air on the subject, ransomware groups have shown time and again that they are absolutely not above targeting the healthcare sector. In the twelve months between October 2022 and September 2023, there were 213 known attacks against the healthcare sector, making it the ninth most attacked sector globally.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In the classic case of a human user clicking to a website, CAs, like DigiCert, verify the authenticity of the website and encrypt the data at both ends.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Alexander hasn’t lost a step pouring his creative energy into studies related to the development of “ ” for healthcare applications – essentially using data analytics to simulate human organs, the better to keep them in tune. More about these paradigm shifters below.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. of the surveyed organizations encrypt more than 90% of their sensitive data stored in the cloud. And only a mere 2.6%

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to those few groups, their cybercriminal actions would never include organizations actively involved in healthcare, such as hospitals. Unfortunately, we have seen these type of disruptions in healthcare before. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Stop malicious encryption. Prevent intrusions.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Even as enterprises across the globe hustle to get their Internet of Things business models up and running, there is a sense of foreboding about a rising wave of IoT-related security exposures. We live in a world where we have nearly three Internet-connected devices for every human on the planet. Scaling your security measures.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. Require two-factor authentication (2FA) on remote desktops and VPNs.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 13, 2018

Also criticized was Medtronic’s failure to implement rudimentary security standards such as https encryption and digital signatures. The weakness could be used to present healthcare providers with erroneous information that could lead to deadly mistakes. Read more here. The post Medtronic Devices Fatal Flaw?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

. “Fortunately, TGH’s monitoring systems and experienced technology professionals effectively prevented encryption, which would have significantly interrupted the hospital’s ability to provide care for patients.” Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Stop malicious encryption. Prevent intrusions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

The application of pseudonymization to electronic healthcare records aims at preserving the patient's privacy and data confidentiality. In the US, HIPAA provides guidelines on how healthcare data must be handled, while data de-identification or pseudonymization is considered to simplify HIPAA compliance. Encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Bolster your monitoring and email authentication capabilities. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

When millions of people around the world were sent home to work at the onset of the global COVD-19 pandemic, they left behind not only empty offices but also a host of Internet of Things (IoT) devices – from smartwatches to networked printers – that were still connected to corporate networks and cranking away.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks. In a complex, modern network, this assumption falls apart.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

As new technologies, like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT), become increasingly prominent in the workplace, digital trust practitioners will need to adapt responsibly and safely. Protect with digital sovereignty: This term refers to keeping encryption and data access under your control.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Use case 1: Fortune 500 Healthcare Company.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2023

The MOVEit encrypts files and uses secure File Transfer Protocols to transfer data with automation, analytics and failover options. The software has been heavily used in the healthcare industry as well as thousands of IT departments in financial services and government sectors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

Whether offering instant access to patient records, allowing remote diagnosis of treatment, or giving access to lifestyle management and monitoring apps, it’s undeniable that the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected services are revolutionising the healthcare industry.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 12, 2022

While LastPass may not have suffered a breach, it should be a wake up call to many who still use single-factor password-based authentication to their LastPass accounts and password vaults to do a little housekeeping. Credential stuffing is a tactic hackers commonly use to compromise internet accounts. What is LastPass?” All set up!

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Some of these organizations are considered vital infrastructure such as local governments, financial companies, healthcare organizations, energy firms, and technology manufacturers. Recent scans showed that around 1,000 administrative consoles are publicly exposed to the internet. Stop malicious encryption. Detect intrusions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, with ransomware operations. Turn off SSH and other network device management interfaces such as Telnet, Winbox, and HTTP for wide area networks (WANs) and secure with strong passwords and encryption when enabled.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 21, 2023

IoT Security: Examine the vulnerabilities and challenges associated with securing the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. Explore topics such as authentication protocols, encryption mechanisms, and anomaly detection techniques to enhance the security and privacy of IoT ecosystems.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

Without APIs there would be no cloud computing, no social media, no Internet of Things. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. This is essential in industries that are heavily regulated and store very sensitive data, like healthcare and finance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

Early this year the group announced that it will no longer attack organizations in the healthcare industry, companies involved in the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, and funeral service organizations. Require multi-factor authentication for remote access to OT and IT networks. 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Rising Internet of Things (IoT) and remote health care adoption mean there’s a higher risk attackers could use one seemingly insignificant entry point to gain critical information. Encrypt Data at All Points. Another crucial step in securing health care data is encrypting it. Implement Strict Access Controls.

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